Federal Health Care Website – Spanish Speaking
Online Resources
General Health Care Reform Websites
Alliance for Health Reform http://www.allhealth.org/
Citizens’ Healthcare Working Group http://www.citizenshealthcare.gov/index.php
Cover the Uninsured Week http://covertheuninsured.org/ RSS feed
Kaiser Family Foundation – Health Coverage and the Uninsured http://www.kff.org/uninsured/index.cfm
Healthcare-NOW http://www.healthcare-now.org/
Institute of Medicine: Insuring America’s Health: Principles and Recommendations http://www.iom.edu/?id=19175
National Coalition on Healthcare http://www.nchc.org/
Public Agenda — Issue Guide: Health Care http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/frontdoor.cfm?issue_type=healthcare
RESULTS – 2006 Health Care for All Campaign http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=1459
Universal Health Care Action Network http://www.uhcan.org/
National Conference of State Legislators http://www.ncsl.org:80/programs/health/h-primary.htm
Wisconsin Health Care Reform Plans
Wisconsin Health Plan – on Wisconsin Health Project site http://www.wisconsinhealthproject.org/plan/index.htm
Health Care Partnership Plan – on Wisconsin AFL-CIO site http://www.wisaflcio.org/features/Wis%20Health%20Care%20Proposal.htm
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/legislativealert/stateissues/upload/wis_fsheet.pdf
Wisconsin Health Care Partnership Plan – on Wisconsin Alliance of Cities site http://www.wiscities.org/Newby1.pdf
Wisconsin Health Security Act – on Coalition for Wisconsin Health site http://www.wisconsinhealth.org/
Health Care in Wisconsin
Kaiser State Health Facts http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?
University of Wisconsin Extension Health Policy Information http://www.uwex.edu/ces/flp/health/
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/
Wisconsin Medical Society – Care for the Uninsured http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/resources/uninsured.cfm
Religious Organizations and Projects
American Baptist – Resolution On Health Care For All http://www.abc-usa.org/resources/resol/careall.htm
Episcopal Church – Health Care Resolutions http://www.episcopalchurch.org/1866_7706_ENG_HTM.htm
ELCA – Advocacy – Corporate Social Responsibility – Domestic Access to Healthcare http://www.elca.org/advocacy/issues/health/healthcare_domesticaccess.html
ELCA – Caring for Health: Our Shared Endeavor http://www.elca.org/socialstatements/health/
ELCA Background Paper – Hunger and Poverty Fact Sheet: The Uninsured http://www.elca.org/advocacy/issues/hunger/uninsured.html
National Council of Churches – Resolution For Renewed Faith Community Universal Health Care Campaign http://www.ncccusa.org/about/u2kres.html
Presbyterian Church – USA (Search for “health care” in “the Social Witness Policy Compilation”) http://index.pcusa.org/NXT/gateway.dll?fn=default.htm$f=templates$vid=default$3.0
United Church of Christ – Justice and Peace – Health & Wellness http://www.ucc.org/justice/health/
United Methodist Church – General Board for Church and Society – Health http://www.umc-gbcs.org/site/pp.asp?c=fsJNK0PKJrH&b=861341
Universal Health Care Action Network – Faith Project http://www.uhcan.org/faith/index.htm
University of Southern California Center for Religion and Civic Culture: Religion and Health Access http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/health/
Texts of some of the above, and other religious health care statements, can be found at: http://www.uhcan.org/faith/faith_statements/intro.htm
Sources for Health and Hope Study Guide
California Council of Churches, Being the Good Samaritan: Health Access for All Californians http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/ccrc/private/docs/health?good_samaritan.pdf
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, GAO Study Confirms Health Care Savings Accounts Primarily Benefit High-Income Individuals
http://www.cbpp.org/9-20-06health.htm
Citizen’s Health Care Working Group, The Health Report to the American People http://www.citizenshealthcare.gov/healthreport/healthreport.php
Cover the Uninsured, Health Care Coverage in America
http://www.citizenshealthcare.gov/resources/papers/issues_guide.pdf
Families USA, No Shelter from the Storm: America’s Uninsured Children
http://www.childrenshealthcampaign.org/tools/reports/Uninsured-Kids-report.PDF
Institute of Medicine, Care Without Coverage
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=592
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, State Medicaid Fact Sheet [Wisconsin & United States]
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi
Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefits: 2006 Summary of Findings
http://www.kff.org/insurance/7527/upload/7528.pdf
Health Insurance Premium Growth Moderates Slightly in 2006, But Still Increases Twice as Fast as Wages and Inflation
http://www.hret.org/hret/media/content/EHBSrelease06.pdf
U.S. Census Bureau, Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005
http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p60-229.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office, Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, Competition and Other Factors Linked to Wide Variation in Health Care Prices, August 2005
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05856.pdf
Wisconsin Community Action Program Association, et. al., Wisconsin Connections: An Eligibility Guide to Assistance Programs for Wisconsin Households
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/connections/
WI Dept. Heath and Family Services, Badger Care Plus Program: Concept Paper, May 4, 2006.
http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/badgercareplus/pdf/BCConceptOriginalV411.pdf
Wisconsin Health Insurance Coverage2004
http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/stats/healthinsurance.htm
Wisconsin Medicaid Program. July 2006
http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/badgercareplus/pdf/2006medicaidoverview.pdf
Advocacy Opportunities
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